Laws & Regulations

RMP Guidance for Warehouses - Chapter 8: Emergency Response Program

Implementing an emergency response program along with your risk management plan may be required if you have at least one Program 2 or 3 process in place, and if your employees will respond to some releases involving regulated toxic or flammable substances.

Clean Air Act Section 112(r) Inspection Guidance Distribution Memorandum

This memorandum issues and makes immediately effective the document, "Guidance for Conducting Risk Management Program Inspections under Clean Air Act Section 112(r)," which supersedes the 1999 document on auditing risk management plans/programs.

Memorandum of Understanding between EPA and CSB on Chemical Incidents

This MOU sets forth principles of the working relationship between EPA and the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) in the area of accidental chemical release, including emergency response, prevention, and research.

General RMP Guidance - Chapter 4: Offsite Consequence Analysis

This chapter provides basic compliance information, not modeling methodologies, for people who plan to do their own air dispersion modeling. OCA is a required part of the risk management program, and involves worst-case and alternative release scenarios.

Chemical Safety Alert: Chemical Accidents from Electric Power Outages

Incident data from the National Response Center (NRC) shows that during 2000 there were about 240 chemical releases reported due to an electric power interruption, as well as resumption/restart; only a few were related to planned rolling blackouts.

RMP Guidance for Chemical Distributors - Chapter 6: Prevention Program (Program 2)

If your processes are ineligible for Program 1 and you have substances above the threshold that are not covered by OSHA’s Process Safety Management standard, you have Program 2 processes and Prevention Program applies.

RMP Guidance for Chemical Distributors - Chapter 1: General Applicability

The Risk Management Program rule covers you if you are: the owner/operator of a stationary source, that has more than a threshold quantity, of a regulated substance, in a process. Follow the flowchart, definitions, and Q & A's to determine applicability.

RMP Guidance for Warehouses - Appendix A/B: 40 CFR part 68/Selected NAICS Codes

These appendices contain the full text of 40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 68, Chemical Accident Prevention Provisions; which includes hazard assessment, emergency response, substance thresholds, reporting requirements, and the Risk Management Plan.

RMP Guidance for Warehouses - Chapter 2: Applicability of Program Levels

Once you have determined that you have one or more processes subject to the Risk Management Plan rule (40 CFR part 68), this chapter helps you identify what actions you must take to comply. Processes fall under three different program levels.

RMP Guidance for Warehouses - Chapter 3: Five-Year Accident History

A five year accident history must be completed for each covered process, and all accidental releases meeting specified criteria must be reported in the Risk Management Plan (RMP). Must include details about each event and its impacts.

RMP Guidance for Warehouses - Chapter 10: Implementation

The implementing agency is the federal, state, or local agency taking the lead for implementation and enforcement of part 68. They review risk management plans, select some for audits, and conduct on-site inspections.

RMP Guidance for Propane Storage Facilities - Appendix A

The last page of this document is the Table of Toxic Endpoints, Appendix A to Part 68.

Fact Sheet: Risk Management Program (RMP) Reconsideration Final Rule

Risk management programs, which consist of a hazard assessment, a prevention program, and an emergency response program; must be periodically audited to assess whether the plans are adequate or need to be revised to comply with the regulation.

RMP Guidance for Warehouses - Chapter 9: Risk Management Plan

Submit one RMP, including offsite consequence analysis, for all of your covered processes using the web-based RMP*eSubmit. Your RMP is then stored on EPA's Central Data Exchange (CDX) where you can access it and make changes or corrections.

RMP Guidance for Warehouses - Introduction

If you handle, manufacture, use, or store any of the toxic and flammable substances listed in 40 CFR Part 68 above the specified threshold quantities in a process, you are required to develop and implement a risk management program rule.

Strategy for Coordinated EPA/Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Implementation of the Chemical Accident Prevention Requirements of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990

EPA and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) share responsibility for prevention: OSHA has the Process Safety Management Standard to protect workers, and EPA the Risk Management Program to protect the general public and environment.

Appendix F: Supplemental Risk Management Program Guidance for Wastewater Treatment Plants

Detail for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), including publicly owned treatment works (POTWs) and other industrial treatment systems, on complying with part 68 with respect to chlorine, ammonia (anhydrous and aqueous), sulfur dioxide, and digester gas.